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Word: larynx (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...insect sting is another man's poison. In Rye, N.Y. last week, Charles Pilger Jr., 28, was stung by a bee, died a few minutes later when his swollen larynx closed. In Vancouver, B.C., 17-month-old Mark Bennett, who had toddled into a wasp nest, been stung 477 times, went home from the hospital completely recovered after 20 days of treatment (with penicillin, ACTH and antihistamines). ¶ Four Brooklyn doctors have found that an extract from the liver of pregnant cows gives prompt relief to most of their cases of osteoarthritis (by far the commonest form of arthritis...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Capsules, Sep. 24, 1951 | 9/24/1951 | See Source »

When Katharine Hepburn, Joan Fontaine, Jean Arthur, Merle Oberon and Ingrid Bergman speak their lines on France's movie screens, they talk French as fluently as natives. This is not strange because each of them uses the same native tongue and larynx; tiny, blue-eyed French Actress Paula Dehelly does the talking for all of them...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Pop | 5/8/1950 | See Source »

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